How to help people migrating from pip to conda?

Either that or just be really clear upfront: “if you start here you have these responsibilities that the tools won’t handle for you”. Along with the other recommendations for users who want those things handled by their tools.

But we’ve come a long way with venv-based tools and they’re still good for most cases. Personally I’d like to see more investment in new libraries with better dependencies that can easily work with venvs, and any C API and performance work on CPython that can also alleviate the need for extension modules everywhere. That’s not packaging, but packaging has the pressure it does because it’s our only way to work around the real problems.